Angle-body type



Sept. 23, 1930. BENTQN 1,776,718

ANGLE BODY TYPE Flled Dec. 19, 1928 LmnBoz (JBen ion prlntlng ltallcs.

Patented Sept. 23, 1930 UNITED STATES.

' JERSEY PATENT HOQFFICE- LINN'BOYD BENTON, OF PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN TYPE FOUNDERS COMPANY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF'NEW ANGLE-BonY rYrn This invention relates to printers type, and particularly to the form of type used 111 Anobject of the invention is to minimize or eliminate the kerns which have heretofore 7 been necessary with italic type.

Another object is to .provide a type for printing in italics which will lock up in the type form securely. r

A further object is to provide an italic type which will be easy to handle in composition and in correction and distribution.

Further objects and advantages. of this invention will become apparent as the description proceeds.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part hereof, and on which similar reference characters indicatesimilar parts,

Figure 1 is a plan View of several letters set up showing my invention,

Figure 2, a perspective of a single type, showing the configuration of the type form,

Figures 3 and 4 show spaces,

Figure 5, a space called an end space which is used for the purpose of squaring up the ends of letters and also for the purpose of using ordinary spacing materlal between theflat surfaces of the end spaces when one of them has been reversed, and

Figure 6 a view of two adjacent type show ing the clearance between thefside portions.

As stated, the'object of this inventlon 1s to provide italic type in which the letters may lie practically on the body of the type and not have excessive overhanging kerns as has been found necessary n making italic In the drawings, numeral 10 indicates the body of the letters upon which the letter 11 itself may be formed. In order'to provide for the slope of the letters I provide the type 10 with sloping sides 12 and 13 and parallel surfaces 1 1, 15, 16, 17 at right angles to the body. The sloping sides having a clearance The type therefore at 30. so. that it will not interfere with the perfect lining of one type against another.

The body of the .type is cast with the usual printers nick 18. In order to space the type I providespaces 19 and 20,;thespace20 .beinga double spacer. These spaces have parallel portions 21 and 22, which: correspond to the parallel portions 16 and 17 on the body 7 of the type. I The opposite side of the spaces have parallel portions 23 and 24 whichficorrespond to the parallehportions 14 and15, respectively, of the type body. p p Figure 5 shows another form of space for squaring up the end of a line of type. This space has parallelportions25 and 26 which.

correspond to the similar portions 21 and 22 "of the space 20; The opposite side 27 of thisspace is a plane face at right angles to the back 28 of the space. The end space 29 shown inFig. 1 is similar to that shown in Fig. '5 in detail, but in inverted position, having a wide front and narrow backi It will be obvious to those skilled in the art that various changes may be made in my device without departing from the spirit of the invention, and I therefore do not limit myself to what is shown in the drawings and described in the specification, but only as set forth in the appendedclaims. i

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claimas new and desire to and one side at right angles to the line of print and the other side formed by a slopingsurface and two parallel sides of different lengths atright angles to the line of print, substantially as set forth. a

2. A printing type for slanting letters having front and back portions parallel to the line of print, and slanting side portions, the

sides each having parallel surfaces at right angles to the body, the upper and lower parallel surfaces on one side of the type being of unequal width and those on the other side being of unequal width in the reverse order whereby a clearance is provided between adjacent type when the type are set up, sub-y stantially as set forth.

3. A printing type for slanting letters having front and back portions parallel to the line of print, and side portions composed of three faces two of which are unequal in width and lie in parallel planes, the third 'of which lies in a plan oblique with respect to the other two planes, substantially as set forth. j

' 4. A printing type for slanting letters having front and back portions parallel tothe line of print, and slanting side portions, the sides each having parallel surfaces substantially at right angles to the front and back portions, the upper and lower parallel sur faces on one side of the type being of unequal width and those on the other side being unequal in width in the reverse order whereby a clearance is provided between adjacent slanting side portions of the type when the type is set up, the side portions lying in two opposite parallel planes connected by a third surface whichlies in a plane oblique with respect to'the parallel portions, substantially as set forth.

5. A spacer for printing type for slanting letters comprising a relatively thin plate having the central portion of its'opposite sides lying in parallel planes oblique to the line of print, each of these planesterminating in upper and lower surfaces which lie in planes-at right angles to the line of print,

the surface of one side at the frontof the type being unequal in width with that forrning the opposite side and the surface forming the plane at one side at the back of thetype being also of unequal width from the plane of the opposite side but in the reverse order, substantially as set forth.

In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Jersey City, New Jersey, this eighteenth day of December, A. D. nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.

LINN BOYD BENTON; 7 

